Showing posts with label progressives. Show all posts
Showing posts with label progressives. Show all posts

Tuesday, June 09, 2020

Headlines


Progressives steamrolled across the Senate map

Biden to meet privately with George Floyd’s family and will record message for funeral

Minneapolis mayor booed out after refusing to defund police ...

Barr: Media’s big lie that Lafayette Park protesters were peaceful

Thousands protest in Brussels as U.S. movement sweeps Europe

Op-Ed: The future of U.S. leadership depends on how the nation addresses systemic racism

NYT: Bush, Romney will not support Trump re-election ...

National Guard members look for new hotel, after DC mayor boots them

Colin Powell: Trump ‘lies all the time’

Coronavirus live updates: AstraZeneca approached Gilead about a potential merger

Colin Powell to vote Biden ...

Police chief forced out after praising citizens armed against looters

Wednesday, September 11, 2019

Leadership


Be he right or be he wrong, there is no question that Donald Trump is a leader. He has supreme confidence in his ability to make things happen. And he is right more often than he is wrong ... which really angers his opponents. And very often these opponents would rather Trump lose than the United States win. This is a perverse type of political hostility. When President Trump moves in an unconventional direction with Afghanistan withdrawal or Iranian denuclearizing, fake-news pundits squirm and scream, “That is not the way to do it” ... forgetting that their previous mindless approaches were totally ineffective. What’s that definition of insanity?

I find it strange that liberals often find it preferable to do nothing administratively than be shown as having a hand on the throttle and a eye on the rail. I recall that many of my lefty friends called Mayor Rudy Giuliani a Nazi as he led New York City back to live-ability. And now the mayor of this city, de Blasio, would rather exercise at the gym than run his city ... with the result that it once again is a mess. This same insanity is being repeated in other Democrat cities ... Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle, St. Louis, Portland, Chicago, etc., etc.

Why, in the minds of Democrats, does responsible management equate to totaliarism? And laissez faire and permissiveness equal “justice?” There can be no real progress without making decisions and shaping operations. Yet they call themselves “progressives!” Railing against the phantom bugaboos of racism, bigotry, misogyny and antisemitism is not a substitute for leadership. And every so often the American people wake up and realize this truth.

Tuesday, February 13, 2018

Headlines


Progressives storm Democrat primaries

Pence says US is open to discussions with North Korea

Plane with 71 aboard crashes near Moscow ...

Rob Porter's ex-wife pens op-Ed against Trump

The mysterious oppo researcher working in the White House lawyer's office

Bull market looks safe for now as fewer than half of corrections deepen into full-blown bears

Hawaii cesspools threaten drinking water, tourism

FBI's Lisa Page to Peter Strzok: 'I truly hate pro-lifers'

Devin Nunes creates his own alternative news site

[Sen.] Jim Jordan disgusted by budget deal, 'The swamp won'

Obama campaign manager: Public pollsters should be shot ...

Trump's $1.5T infrastructure plan: shorten permitting, invest in rural areas, train workforce

Monday, December 18, 2017

Headlines


Progressives hunt down one of the last conservative Democrats

The next crisis for Puerto Rico: a crush of foreclosures

Special Counsel [Mueller] fired before Christmas?

Trump: Deporting MS-13 is cheaper than jailing them

Trump transition lawyer accuses Mueller of unlawfully obtaining emails

NBC made payment to staffer after sexual harassment claim against Chris Matthews

Malls NOT seeing holiday uptick ...

Poll: 54% say that Mueller's ties to Comey a conflict of interest

GOP lawmaker: Top FBI officials will be subpoenaed

New tax bill language allows illegal immigrants to take tax credit

Republicans declare open season on Bannon ...

Hundreds of Islamic State 'foreign fighter' have returned to Europe

Friday, August 12, 2016

Split Personality


Peggy Noonan has chiseled another Op-Ed diamond in the Wall Street Journal. It is about the gulf that has arisen between the lofty ideals exhibited by those espousing virtually unlimited Middle-East immigration (Merkel, Obummer, Hellary, Kerry, etc.) and those who actually end up paying the price for those elites' charity -- the middle and lower-class communities who are required to foot the societal adjustments and monetary bills  ... two different and distinct groups ... and never the twain shall meet ... see:  WSJ Op-Ed.

But what struck me about this well-sharpened Occam's Razor was that Ms. Noonan did not see the disconnect between this spot-on observation and why Donald Trump is resonating with so many Americans. Yes, the same Donald Trump for whom her pen pal, Maureen Dowd, fashioned a new excretory organ just a few short days ago in one of her lesser Op-Ed zircons ... see: With Both Barrels.

Does Maureen Dowd's left brain not talk to Peggy Noonan's right brain? Can she not realize that plenty of middle-Americans see in Trump someone who will push back against these globalists, these trade-at-any-cost-ers, these government-knows-best-ers, these open-border-ites, these bleeding-heart progressives? It would have been nice if Ms. Noonan  suddenly had an epiphany contrasting these two opinion editorials ... but she seems too diplomatic to reference Dowd's Trump scatological reforming.

Or maybe her previous Trump hit piece was just because Dowd was off her meds?

Thursday, May 14, 2015

To the Rear March!


To the rear march! To the rear march! Remember that funny routine by Sargent Bilko ... where he has his troops in total disarray after a quick series of such idiotic commands. Well, the Diplomad has another precious piece describing "progressives" as typifying such Bilko-isms ... keeping its lefty lemmings off balance with it's ever-changing definition of good and evil. Again, this blog is very well written and right on the mark. (Some clever Hollywood or TV producer should give this former foreign-service worker a new career as a script-writer for a liberal comedy of manners. Or even The New Yorker might run a piece by him ... that would drive the left even more looney!)

Anyway, take a gander ... you're sure to nod your head and smile a bit ... see: Marx might have something ...